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“Because that is when you love somebody – when you see them being game in the face of the worst. Not courageous. Not heroic. Just game.” (The Human Stain Quotes)
Philip Roth
The Human Stain
“But the danger with hatred is, once you start in on it, you get a hundred times more than you bargained for. Once you start, you can’t stop. I don’t know anything harder to control than hating. Easier to kick drinking than to master hate. And that is saying something.”
Philip Roth
The Human Stain
“I couldn’t imagine anything that could have made Coleman more of a mystery to me than this unmasking. Now that I knew everything, it was as though I knew nothing”
Philip Roth
The Human Stain
“I was gushing and I knew it. I surprised myself with my eagerness to please, felt myself saying too much, explaining too much, overinvolved and overexcited in the way you are when you’re a kid and you think you’ve found a soul mate in the new boy down the street and you feel yourself drawn by the force of the courtship and so act as you don’t normally do and a lot more openly than you may even want to.”
Philip Roth
The Human Stain
“Nothing lasts and yet nothing passes either, and nothing passes just because nothing lasts.”
Philip Roth
The Human Stain
“The danger with hatred is, once you start in on it, you get a hundred times more than you bargained for. Once you start, you can’t stop.”
Philip Roth
The Human Stain
“The pleasure isn’t in owning the person. The pleasure is this. Having another contender in the room with you.”
Philip Roth
The Human Stain
“There is something fascinating about what moral suffering can do to someone who is in no obvious way a weak or feeble person. It’s more insidious even than what physical illness can do, because there is no morphine drip or spinal block or radical surgery to alleviate it. Once you’re in its grip, it’s as though it will have to kill you for you to be free of it. Its raw realism is like nothing else.”
Philip Roth
The Human Stain
“There is truth and then again there is truth. For all that the world is full of people who go around believing they’ve got you or your neighbor figured out, there really is no bottom to what is not known. The truth about us is endless. As are the lies.”
Philip Roth
The Human Stain
“There was always something about our family, and I don’t mean color-there was something about us that impeded you. You think like a prisoner. You do, Coleman Brutus. You’re white as snow and you think like a slave.”
Philip Roth
The Human Stain
“You take off your clothes and you’re in bed with somebody, and that is indeed where whatever you’ve concealed, your particularity, whatever it may be, however encrypted, is going to be found out, and that’s what all the shyness is all about and what everybody fears.”
Philip Roth
The Human Stain
